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THE DODGE CITY TIMES.
SUBSCBirTIOX: (2.00 pr Tear, la Aduotf.
XICHOLAS B. KLAIXE. Editor.
PEOPLE WILL TALK.
You may irct throush tho worli, but 'twill be
very slow.
If you listen to all that Is said as you 20:
You'll bo worried, and fretted, and kept In a
stew
Fur meddlesome tonjues must havo some
thin? to do.
And people will talk.
lfnulctand modest, you'll have It prcsum-d
That your humble position Is onlv assumed
You're n woir In sheep's clothing, or else
you're u lool:
But don t pet cc ted keep perfectly cool
For people will talk
And then. If you show the least boldness of
heart.
Or a slight Inclination to take your own part.
They iil cull younn upstart, conceited end
vain;
But keep straight ahead don't stop to ex
plain For people will talk.
If threndbarcyourdress,orold-fashIonedyour
hat.
Some one will surely take notice of that.
And hint rather strong that jou cant pay
your way;
But don't pet excite!, whatei er they say
- For people will talk.
If you dress In the fashion, don't think to'cs-
cae,
Forthey criticise then in a different shape;
Vou'ro ahead of your means, or your tailor's
unpaid;
But mind our own business there's naught
to bo made.
r er people, will talk.
Now, the ben way to do Is to do as you
plcae:
For your mind if you have one will then be
nt eae.
Of course sou will meet with all sorts of
abuse;
But don't think to rtop them It ain't any
use
For people trfll talk.
FISIIIXK WITH A PICKAX.
Hammer for Kodf, riilnelo for Cult
Foll I'lll and Wllire to Und tliem
Ptiirt-a 31de of Whale9 Bones
Some III; PUli Storlck.
"Going into til? plumbing business'"
3 well-known scientific man, who was
rigged out in a rough-and-ready suit
and carried a bag suggestive of bad
drainage and defective Hues, wa3 asked
in the Grand Central Depot.
"No," he replied, laughing, "Fm
going a-fihing, and this is ray outfit. I
have found a place in the country
where salt-water fishing can bo had.
Sunderland. Mass., is the spot, thoush
other equall- choice places are Scho
harie, X. Y.; parts of tlio Caltskills.
Milford, X. V.; Ithaca, Buffalo, Cum
berland, Md.; Moorstown, Pa.: South
btiry. Conn., besides many otherplaccs;
and if you want large game go to Canon
City or Charleston, S. C Of course
this is sub rosa, because if it gets out the
country will bo Hooded wth Walton
next summer."
' You said salt fish, not salt cod?"
"No. They are genuine sea fish
from salt water. It's all in tho bait I
use this kind." opening the bag and
dragging out four or live hammers and
att assortment of cold chisels, "and one
kind answers for all."
" Ah, I sec. Yon refer to the rock
fish."
Yes, fossil fishes. It is far ahead
of lic fishing, I think. No squalls,
seasickness, or waiting for bites, and
when you do hook one it don't get off.
Then there is the same variety, only
fhoy are much moro curious, ranging
from armored fellows related to the
gars up to sharks a hundred and lifty
feet long, and whales perhaps larger
yet. My rod is a hammer, and cold
chisels make the best Mies; and here is
something in lieu of a liarpoon for
large game," holding up a wad of gun
cotton.
"Does it require any skill?"
"Certainly," was" the reply.. '"I
have over seven hundred different kinds
in my collection, so you see I can cast
the lly to some purpose. Uf all fossils,
fishes are the most dillicult to get out
whole, the slightest wrong stroke; in
many cases, spoiling the specimens.
Many of them 1 treat to a glue bath as
soon as possible, and this prevents
further breakage. I find them in all
sorts of positions, upright, fiat, some
torn to pieces by larger'tish. but most
of them have evidently died and be
come covered by the mud of the bot
tom in shallow water, so when taken
out you have the fish itself, or its per
fect shape, and the .cast. Sometimes a
skillful blow will separate the shale so
that the upper pieces can be lifted off
and used as a cover and protection in
the cabinet. We often find the food of
the fish, in its stomach, and in this way
its habits become known. 1 don't
known." in answer to a question,
" which is the hardest work. I have
tramped all day through the roughest
AuironaacK country, wet and hungry,
JIudgc. They were from eight to ten
feet in length. One line specimen was
found weathered out by the wind and
rain, forming a mound on the bank of
tho Solomon Hiver, Kansas. Numerous
other species were, found in the desert
tracts, near Fort Wallace, Kansas, on
for one trout, and have blasted and J the shores of the great cretaceous sea
hammered at a ledge, torn down stone
fences and set them np all dayand only
realized one lower jaw for my pains',
but as it was a new species I felt paid.
Doubtless tho latter involves the most
manual labor, and I have frequently
trampcM ten or twelve miles with a load 1 lection that are as perfect as when
of rocks on my back. Had I been
forced to do it. I should have consid
ered mvself a martyr. Stono fences in
the right localities are good places to
look for specimens, and I have been as
saulted, blackguarded and even sued
by farmers for hauling them down, but
it is one of the excitements of the
sport.
that once was thero. What is the
largest fossil fish known? The sharks
from the tertiary period are probably
the largest. Some. of them were pos
sibly one hundred and lifty feet long.
1 liave some of their teeth in my col
they were in the fish, and the enamel
is as rich as ever. Some of the teoth
are as large as your outstretched
band." "
"But how do yon iaow they were a
hundred and fifty feet long.?"
"By a very slmplo calculation. Tako
tho jaw of one of the allied sharks o(
to-day the carclutnas as a model, and
,Vll the localities von mentioned . -rrange these fossil teeth in seven or
were once under watcr.J" I e'S1'1 rows la imaginary jaw, or one
" Yes. the Devonian Sea covered tho ma''? of Plasler.. " J wi ,I,aJo a
spot, and the aspect of tao continent ' i'V?, irS rTnTti wh
was materially dillerent from what it is $ ro t a Dort,nate length
now. I he tcmnernturo. even, was iln. . v .. -. .. w. -- ..
cidedly different. At this time the tl? !f nln? Vna.il fi -h th
i?..i . v.,.i.:.. .... 1 -..i i : . Alice sollcction of fo3sil fishes, the
SyMSS. .LA?arV 3U3i best in tho citv. and probably in the
m t?-; Jfi ", ? iU , , Greea countiy. is owned bv Dr. XcwWy.
S Int - C WCre Columbia College, anil the la: go shirks'
much lower than at present'" flccth m bo een ho jfusWlm in
"How long ago was this?" Central Park. Dr. Sir John Hunter, of
"Well, the time is given as 33,000,- (the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
000 years mere guess work; but wo i London, in describing a specimen of
can easily form ideas of tho immensity medium size, say: "Tho length of thu
of time by looking around us, and we 1 base of this tooth from the carduirotlon
nmialodon (Acassizl is four inches
eight lines; that of tho longest of its
sides, tire inches ten lines; with it is
placed a tooth of an unusually large
specimen of the largest known living
species of enrcfiarias, the length of the
bu-e of which is ono inch eight lines,
and that of the longest of its sides two
inches three lines. This tooth is from
see that the surface of the earth has not
changed perceptibly as far back as we
nave information, say four or live
thousand years. Now, during the De
vonian age, strata were deposited from
live hundred to hftcen thousand feet in
thickness. You can draw your own
conclusions as to whether this deposi
tion could take place in a hundred
thousand or a hundred million vears. a shark about twentv feet Ion?. Tho
The earliest fossil fishes and moro than fossil shark, if bearing the same pro
two thousand have been discovered in J portion to the teeth, must have been
all arc found in the Schoharie grit, I over sixtv fct long," Tho fossil tooth
and were ganoids remarkable creatures t used in Sir John's comparison was from
with bonv plates or scales, a regular j tho miocene tertiary for mations o(
armor. They were related to our gar- . Jfalta, and was n third smaller than the
fishes and sturgeon of to-day, and, largest found in America. Prof,
stranger yet. to tho reptiles. They Agassiz made similar comparisons
could move their heads up and down, a with liko results- Tho teeth, al
decidedly unlishlike arrangement- Some though under srroiind for untold
j had plates, liko a green turtle, and pad- ages, still in many cases retain their
mes instead ot nns, with wiiicn tney beautiful polish, and the line serrations
moved along. They all had. curious of tho trenchant edges are as perfect a
vertcbratcd tails, that is, tho vertebra when first depo-itcd. If a longitudinal
extended into tho tail, cither the center 1 section is removed from one ot the
or tho upper lobe, giving them a re- j basal angles, the thin layer of enam
markablc appearanco. One of these, eled dentine will be found intact. In
the megalichthjs, coming from tho t the fossil shark's tooth, or glosso vetru,
coal age, had such enormous teeth that this enamel is composed of animal sub
limy would be taken for those of a croc-: stance and calcareous earth, and i3
odile some of them being seven inches j nearly in the same quantilv as the re
long. The head of this monster was centbut the central part of the tooth
protected by immense plates. The as-1 has its animal substance in a state of
terolcpis was twenty to thirty-five feet mucous! interspersed in the calcareous
long, and was a savago creature. One matter. The teeth were formerly
of the largest wa3 called tho din- found in great number by Prof. Holmes
ichthys. A single massive plate oceu- near Charleston. S. C.
pied the center of the back, and was' "You mentioned fossil whales," tha
more than two feet in length and reporter remarked; "do you capture
breadth.. The head was three feet in 1 them with gun cotton or the ham
diamoter, and the mandibles were two . mer'"
leet in length, by six inches in depth. I have excavated a o'ood many with
and solid bone. Oneyou might call the a pick-ax," was the replv. "They are
buckler-fish had a head formed like a ! founa in Georgia and Alabama in the
shield.and was prolonged backward into ( tertiary beds-not in hard rock and
two long points.sothe animal resembled
a gigantic blunt arrowhead. Its eyes
wero very small on the top of the head,
while tho small body was covered with
rhomboidal scales. Another, called
the rhizodus, was a carnivorous fish of
great size. They are found in tho
lime stones and marl that underlie the
coal formation, and with them are
fonnd ferns, land plants, freshwater
shells and crabs, showing that the local
ity where they were discovered was an
estuary. So perfectly are some of
these fishes preserved that every bone,
and even the softer parts. Can bo ex
amined, especially in the macropoma,
a magnificent fish resembling our carp.
In nearly all examined the air bladder,
or a body that took its place, is found,
and is always torn. It evidently enabled
the fish to regulate its buoyancy, so
that it could move with equal lacility in
either very deep or shallow water. One
of the most remarkable fishes is found
in the cretaceous beds, and is allied to
the salmon of to-day. The head, is
about the size of that of a grizzly bear,
short and blunt like a bulldog's, with
short, cylindrical tcsth like those of a
tiger, and equally as large. Two pairs
of them cross earh other on each side
of the end of tho muzzle. It is called
scientifically the Portheus, and many
specimens were found br the late Prof.
are comparatively easy to get out. You
fee the plantations near the coast are
the beds of the old sea, that has reced
ed and exposed the animals that hive
been buried in the bottom. The im
mense size of the bones show them to
1 have belonged to animals much larger
than those of to-day, ami so plenty
were they at one time that the planters
of .Alabama wero obliged to burn the
vertebra! as we do stumps, to get rid
of them, and many bnilt fences' of them.
The sections make good garden seats.
It was a wonderful age when these
creatures lived, in' which such animals
as,the camel, rhinoceros ' and monster
sloths wero indigenous to American
soil." JV, r. Sun.
A, jury convened by the Sheriff of
Qoeens Oonntv. X. Y.. declared Charles
Hi Rogers to be of unsound mind. and.
Judge Armstrong appointed the young
man mother His guardian, .His father,
died about a year ago. leaving an estate
worth 9350,000. and Charles as his only,
heir. It was shown by testimony that
be had no appreciation of money in ex
cess of a quarter of a dollar, and in all
his life had never asked for more for
any purpoa . - His mental weakneji is
in great part.attributed to the excessiva
use of tobacco. ' t
PERSONAL AXn LITEKART.
Mr. Henry James, Jr., the novelist,
is soon to return to America.
About President Garfield's grvro
are to be planted a weeping beech, a
pyramidal oak, abuckeyeandasilvcrfir.
James P. Brace, of Xew York, the
Ehilanthropist who recently died, found
omes in the West for 10,000 poor chil
dren. The following inscription has been
placed on Prof. Clifford's tomb in High
gate Cemetery, England: "I was not,
and was conceived; I lived, and did a
littl .work; I am not, and grieve not."
The proprietors of tho Boston Her
ald. Messrs. Pulsifer, Haskell and An
drews, havo started on a Southern tour
in a special car. It is said that tho
yearly income ot each from the news
paper is $50,000.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, thn
author of "One Summer" and of
"Aunt Serena," is described as a tall,
plump, pretty blonde, with the most
golden of gold hair, delicato complex
ion anil blue eyes.
It is learned from a credible sourco
that Clara Louise Kellogg will at the
conclusion of her present concert en
gagement be united in marriage to Mr.
Whitney, a wealthy Xew York gentle
man, after which sho will leave thu
stage. Tho ceremony will, it Is stated,
occur in Chicago at the homo of ono of
Miss KelIogga friends.
Miss Sara McLean, the author of
the successful bonk "Cape Cor Folks,"
is said to have kept the completed MS.
for a year before submitting it to a
publisher, and having at last offered it
with much doubt and hesitation, has
been greatly surprised at its popularity.
In 1850 Dr. Holland was engaged
as the assistant editor of the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican by Samuel Howies.
His first year's salary was 480. and his
second year's but .700. At the cud of
tho second year, having becomo dissat
isn'cd with his pay. ho proposed to leavo
tho office. Mr. Bowles thou oilcred
him a partnership in the office, and a
quarter of the establishment was sold
to him for ?3.500. his notes being taken
for that amount. When Dr. Holland
sold his share, in the Springfield Ilepulr
lican in 18U7 it was valued at SiOO.000.
giving tho Doctor 50,000 to begin hi3
literary life with.
HUUOKOl'S.
How much agony, in the way of
house plants; do you intend to inliict
on yourself this winter? Botlon iV2.
Jersey Cashier: "lam guilty, and
willing to go to the Penitentiary. Tiie
depositors can go to tho Poor-house."
l.oiiiscille Courtcr-Jourtia!.
Grubb is the name of aXew Jcrjoy
militia General. He is first to the front
and the last to leave a banquet. .V. U.
IKcayune.
"Cleanliness," we are told. " is
next to godliness." Under theso cir
cumstances, we may assume that soar,
is next to charity;" at all events'., let's
soap so. Jurlg.
Confederate bonds have been sell
ing at 2 10. This is owing to tht
a-sthctic craze. Everybody wants an
tiques and otherwise useless things foi
bric-a-brac htek
An advertisement in a New Yorl
paper reads: "Wanted A compositor
one who uses neither tobacco nor rum."
So it would appear that in some chief
compoitors actually use theso vi!
things. It doesn't seem credible.
A'orrisloum liernld.
"Few people," says an exchange
"realize what a wonderfully delicate
structure the'human ear is." That's t
fact. They bang away at the car-drun
as though it wercabass-drnm, and bore
into it as they would bore into an oaker
plank. Boston Transcript.
A gentleman who was Inspecting
a house in tho most fashionable part ot
Austin complained that the location
was too dull and lonesome, that then ,
was no life. "It may seem a little dull
now," responded the owner of the
house, "but you wait till the first of
the month, when the grocers and
butchers are trying to collect their bills,
and you will think there Is a fair or a
circus out in this part of town. I know
it is a little doll daring the day. That's
tho way it is in all fashionable locali
ties, but just wait till about twelve
o'clock at night when these high-toned
roosters come home drunk, ana .pound
on their front, doors and whoop."
Jcxas Silings.
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